Director, Production

believes comedy can move culture and change the world. We use its power to shift perspectives and bring people together to help end childhood poverty. To date, we have helped over 50 million children and families, and counting. Join us.

LOCATION

Candidates should be based in the NY metro area. We are a hybrid organization and work three days per week in our downtown New York City office.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Comic Relief is seeking a Director of Production to lead the engine that drives our creative, marketing, and campaign work. This is a senior, production-minded role responsible for ensuring that ambitious ideas are delivered with excellence—on time, on budget, and at the highest quality—across national campaigns, live comedy events, video, advertising, social media, and community engagement initiatives.

Reporting to the Chief Creative Officer, the Director of Production will oversee how work gets made: creating plans, building systems, managing partners, agencies, and freelance creative and production personnel; leading production across disciplines that blend internal and external resources; and driving execution at every level of the organization.

This role requires a seasoned operator who can zoom out to plan large-scale projects and design workflows and zoom in to manage the details and solve problems in real time.

Comic Relief’s work sits at the intersection of comedy, culture, and impact. To deliver at the scale and ambition our mission demands, we need operational excellence behind every idea.

The Director of Production ensures that creative vision becomes reality—consistently, effectively, and at the highest standard.

Production Leadership

• Own the operational delivery of Comic Relief’s creative and marketing work across campaigns, content, events, and advertising

• Establish and maintain production workflows, processes, and standards that enable teams to do their best work efficiently and consistently

• Design and run meeting structures, project intake, prioritization, and communication rhythms for a growing, cross-functional department

• Lead large-scale, interdisciplinary projects that require participation across multiple departments

• Establish interdepartmental workflows with an eye toward efficiency, speed, clear communication, and accountability

Campaign, Event & Content Production

• Lead planning and production for national campaigns, including awareness, integrated marketing, and fundraising initiatives

• Oversee event production for benefit comedy shows and live activations, including project planning from creative development through delivery, production resourcing, contracting, and daily operations

• Manage video and content production from pre-production through final delivery across formats (short-form, long-form, digital, social, broadcast) including resourcing, contracting, legal/insurance, physical production, post, etc.

• Oversee advertising production across multiple agency partners, including creative development and asset production for paid, owned, and pro bono media

• Ensure creative assets are produced, trafficking-ready, QA’d, and delivered on time to support marketing, media, and campaign needs ensuring the right formats, timelines, and standards for distribution

Creative Services & Internal Deliverables

• Oversee the production of internal and partner-facing materials, including pitch decks, partnership one-sheets, fundraising collateral, institutional proposals, and presentation assets

• Manage deliverables for cross-departmental stakeholders, including Fundraising (corporate, institutional, and individual donors) and Grantmaking & Impact, ensuring materials are accurate, compelling, and aligned with brand and mission

• Coordinate with creative leads to ensure that messaging and visual storytelling reflect Comic Relief’s brand, mission, and impact strategy

• Maintain and update brand assets, templates, and presentation tools to support internal teams and external engagements

• Ensure internal deliverables are formatted, QA’d, and presentation-ready, and that they meet quality and timeline expectations across multiple departments and audiences

Agency & Resource Management

• Identify, vet, onboard, and manage external agencies, production partners, and individual freelancers

• Develop scopes of work, timelines, and budgets for agencies and freelance resources

• Oversee agency and contractor performance, ensuring quality, accountability, and alignment with creative and strategic goals

• Grow, evolve, and maintain Comic Relief’s go-to roster of agencies and freelance partners, ensuring access to high-quality creative, production, and technical resources across disciplines. Freelancers include writers, designers, content creators, comedians, video editors, motion designers, music and sound designers, photographers, voice over artists, etc.

• Serve as the primary operational lead for production-related vendor relationships including agencies, production companies, and music, photo, and video licensing services.

Project Management & Execution

• Lead project management for short- and long-term deliverables, including intake, scoping, scheduling, resourcing, and delivery

• Track timelines, dependencies, and risks; proactively identify issues and solve for potential issues

• Ensure leadership has clear visibility into status, trade-offs, and decision points

• Maintain quality control across all work products

Budgeting, Systems & Optimization

• Manage production budgets, vendor costs, and resource allocation in partnership with Finance

• Oversee technical and production vendors, including CRM- and martech-adjacent partners as needed

• Continuously assess workflows and tools, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, clarity, and output

• Oversee the organization and maintenance of digital asset library

WHO YOU ARE

• A production leader who thrives on making complex work happen

• Equally comfortable building systems and rolling up your sleeves to get projects over the line

• Calm under pressure, highly organized, and deeply accountable

• Fluent in working with creative teams, external partners, marketers, fundraisers, and technologists

• Trusted by leadership to see around corners and solve problems before they escalate

• 10+ years of experience in production, operations, or project leadership roles

• Experience managing national campaigns, agency partners, and multi-channel creative production

• Proven background in event production, video/content production, and advertising production

• Experience identifying, onboarding, and managing agencies and freelance resources across disciplines (creative, production, digital, technical)

• Strong command of project management, budgeting, timelines, and vendor oversight

• Experience working in fast-paced, creative environments; nonprofit or mission-driven experience a plus

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. They will be required to follow any other instructions and perform any other duties requested by their manager.

OUR VALUES

Our values reflect what is important to us at Comic Relief and serve as the foundation of who we are as an organization. The core value below is best illustrated by actions and attitudes that each Comic Relief team member practices. They define what it means to work at Comic Relief and what our teams embody during their time here.

• Innovative

• Collaborative

• Inclusive

• Respectful

• Impact-Driven

WHAT WE OFFER

• Generous health insurance options and commuter program

• 403(b) retirement savings with company match

• Parental leave

• Paid time off and holidays

• Cell phone reimbursement

• Summer Fridays

PAY TRANSPARENCY

Comic Relief offers competitive compensation. The salary range for this role is anticipated to be $125,000 - $130,000. The actual salary is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to: abilities, skills, work experience, knowledge, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.

JOIN US!

Comic Relief US’ commitment to inclusion is critical to fulfilling our vision, mission, and goals. As members of a diverse global community, we each bring unique attributes, and perspectives to our work, enhancing our abilities to reach, engage, and serve marginalized children.

Our colleagues and those we serve come from diverse backgrounds, geographies, and economic circumstances, with a wide range of cultures, customs, and languages. We affirm human diversity in all forms, encompassing ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation and identification, age, abilities, and philosophies. We are dedicated to ensuring our leadership, staff and partners respect, reflect, and value these differences and work to ensure these values are expressed in our communications, content and brand expression.